This'n'That;August 13th[Deficit;GubnerDave;Geeze-Louise]

Fluffy STILL Pissin' It Away!

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), 55 BC [If this ol' guy got the message.... d'ya think the current crop of political slugs will?!?!]

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. government ran a budget deficit of $180.6 billion in July, marking the 10th straight month of red ink, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday. The monthly deficit pushed the cumulative deficit so far this year up to $1.26 trillion -- slightly more than the Obama administration's been projecting for all of the 2010 fiscal year. Fiscal 2010 begins Oct. 1.

• Outlays amounted to $332 billion last month, the Treasury said, up 26% from July 2008.
• Receipts were $151 billion, down from $215 billion in June and 6% lower than a year ago.
• For the year to date, total receipts hit $1.7 trillion, down 17% from a year ago, while outlays stood at about $3 trillion, up 21%.
• Individual income-tax receipts dropped off in July, to $64.8 million from $92.9 million in June [Down 30.3%!!].
• Corporate income-tax receipts dropped dramatically as well, to $2.5 million in July from $32.5 million in June [Down a whopping 92.4%!!].
• The Treasury allocated $7.2 billion in July to its program for buying Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities. The program, intended to revive the market for mortgage financing, has had $153 billion in liabilities so far this fiscal year.
• In addition, the Treasury spent $85 billion for its housing and economic recovery program, which includes buying preferred stock from both Fannie and Freddie.

On another front, the Treasury spent $22 billion of its $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program in July,

• bringing fiscal-year 2009 spending to $169 billion, the agency's figures showed.
• Financial institutions that took money from the program paid back $3.5 billion to the Treasury last month.
• For the full fiscal year, the administration continues to expect a deficit of $1.84 trillion.

Those number are likely to be revised, however, since the economy has been far weaker than was originally estimated. "Double-Dealin' Dave" Keeps Up With Fluffy [New York's gubner-"Double-Dealin' Dave" Paterson is doing his dam'dest to keep up with Fluffy obama's "piss-away" economic policy. I was involved in helping to raise seven children; I'm sure that each year, we didn't spend ONE welfareRAT's allowance on ALL OUR KIDS!!

• The government, at all levels, has made being a welfareRAT all too comfortable. It's time to return the shame to spending money that other people earned!!
• The 'RAT's debit cards?? A PUBLIC DISGRACE!!
• What ever happened to having to go in person to the county office building, stand in line, answer a bunch'a questions in order to receive one's monthly benefits?? [...and if it doesn't last the whole month?? Tough-Shit!!]

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. G. Gordon Liddy Mister Liddy's quote goes to the heart of the problem; Liberals playing "the welfareRAT-"shamelessly spending other people's money!!] ALBANY — The state is providing $200 back-to-school grants to more than 800,000 children in low-income families through $140 million in federal stimulus money and a $35 million grant from billionaire George Soros. Soros' gift allows the state to access $140 million in a 4-to-1 matching grant program through the stimulus package, Gov. David Paterson announced Tuesday in Manhattan. The goal is to have needy families buy back-to-school supplies for their children. Paterson said the slumping economy has put "families into the position where they are going to have to use their money[??] for rent and the most basic of supplies" and may not have money for their children's school supplies. Families that get public assistance or food stamps automatically received the one-time $200 payment Tuesday if they have school-aged children between ages 3 and 17. About $100 million will go to New York City and the rest to upstate and Long Island. About 500,000 children in New York City are eligible and about 315,000 in the rest of the state. Republicans questioned whether the use of stimulus money for the program will help the economy. The $200 was deposited into state-issued debit cards used by needy families. So there is not any requirement that the money be used for back-to-school supplies, or that a child has to be enrolled in school for the family to get the money. "It should be done on a programmatic basis where you have accountability and you know how it is being spent," said Rockland County Executive Scott Vanderhoef. Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos, R-Nassau County, and other Republican senators said the Democratic governor should use the money to lower property taxes after he agreed to raise taxes and fees in the budget. Geeze-Louise: Where's Your Town Meetings? Geeze-Louise-McIntosh-Rodham-Slaughter, the kazillion-year-old, non-representative [NY-28] from Fairport, N.Y., apparently has had enough of town hall meetings. She [as do all the commie-libs] attributes the recent spirited questioning of the healthcare reform proponents to organized resistance. What she fails to realize is: the folks she's failing to represent are fed up with her fascist tactics in forcing the reform down our throats!! Back in the early '90s, Slaughter held two spirited town hall meetings in her Upstate New York district before the third broke into chaos. Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; August 12th[FluffyCareBill;GIBill;Specter/McCaskill]

Ya Better Be Aware!! I downloaded the entire obamaCare bill from the House. I've been reading thru it as time permits. Everyone who was born in America, LEGALLY immigrated to America or who IS NOT ON WELFARE is obligated to read this bill and be prepared to discuss it during public Fluffy-ganda meetings.

Anyone notice how upset the ACORN-COI-Fluffy administration is becoming when the average American "asks questions??"

Where was the outrage when ACORN bussed several loads of PAID AGITATORS into Connecticut to protest those receiving pre-approved AIG retention bonuses?!?!

Where was the outrage when members of the Black Panthers intimidated voters in several minority voting districts in Philladelphia?!?!

Check out this portion of the FluffyCare bill and tell me it ain't "all about control"... This section indicates to me that the federal government is eventually going to be forcibly, without warrant, inspecting your house, your family, your eating habits, your personal hygene, what's in your refridgerator, what's in your closets, what's in your garage, ad infinitum!!the federal socialists ultimate goal is control of every facet of American life; letting them into the healthcare system is a sure way to allow "the camel's nose under the tent flap!!" After that..... It's "off to the races!!!" This was found starting on page 838 of the bill: (a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to improve the well-being, health, and development of children by enabling the establishment and expansion of high quality programs providing voluntary home visitation for families with young children and families expecting children. (b) GRANT APPLICATION.—A State that desires to receive a grant under this section shall submit to the Secretary for approval, at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may require, an application for the grant that includes the following: (1) DESCRIPTION OF HOME VISITATION PROGRAMS.—A description of the high quality programs of home visitation for families with young children and families expecting children that will be supported by a grant made to the State under this section, the outcomes the programs are intended to achieve, and the evidence supporting the effectiveness of the programs. (2) RESULTS OF NEEDS ASSESSMENT.—The results of a statewide needs assessment that describes— (A) the number, quality, and capacity of home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children in the State; (B) the number and types of families who are receiving services under the programs; (C) the sources and amount of funding provided to the programs; (D) the gaps in home visitation in the State, including identification of communities that are in high need of the services; and (E) training and technical assistance activities designed to achieve or support the goals of the programs. (3) ASSURANCES.—Assurances from the State that— (A) in supporting home visitation programs using funds provided under this section, 840 the State shall identify and prioritize serving communities that are in high need of such services, especially communities with a high proportion of low-income families or a high incidence of child maltreatment; (B) the State will reserve 5 percent of the grant funds for training and technical assistance to the home visitation programs using such funds; (C) in supporting home visitation programs using funds provided under this section, the State will promote coordination and collaboration with other home visitation programs (including programs funded under title XIX) and with other child and family services, health services, income supports, and other related assistance; (D) home visitation programs supported using such funds will, when appropriate, provide referrals to other programs serving children and families; and (E) the State will comply with subsection (i), and cooperate with any evaluation conducted under subsection (j). Modern-Era GI Bill Information The modern GI bill, far different from the old Korean-Era that covered Korean,Viet Nam and Viet Nam Era veterans. We got a flat rate dependent upon family size and college participation [1/2 time, 3/4 time, full time]. The newbies get tuition and approved fees and expenses paid directly to the school; at the rate of the most expensive public college in the state. This website will allow you to check schools in your state to find total financial benefits: www.military.com/money-for-school/gi-bill/find-your-new-gi-bill-tuition-and-fee-rate?ESRC=vr.nl This website will show you "military-friendly" colleges. You'll have to fill out a form with your educational objectives, contact information, etc. The article says the applicant may be eligible for an extra $49,000 in educational benefits: http://edu.military.com/gibill/?ESRC=vr.nl This website will allow you to learn about a scholarship for military children. The funds are provided via donations from suppliers and vendors at each commissary, worldwide. Each commissary awards one $1,500 scholarship per year. http://www.militaryscholar.org/about/about.shtml

Specter; McCaskill "Ain't Gotta Clue!"

[Specter: How's That Party-Switch Workin' For Ya?!?!]

[senators Arlen Specter[Pa] and Claire McCaskill [Mo] truely don't have a clue as evidenced by the last sentence of the article below!

• Most members of both houses of Congress have languished for decades in their "Ivory Palaces" on Capital Hill.
• Although they try not to convey it, they're of the opinion that they'll have their seats UNTIL THEY DECIDE TO VACATE!!
• They believe they're ENTITLED!! They have taxpayer funded perquisites beyond belief....
• THEY WANT FOR NOTHING!!
• It's time to toss their "more-than-ample" asses outta office!!

WASHINGTON – Sen. Arlen Specter said Wednesday he thinks people who have been angrily disrupting town hall meetings on overhauling the health care system are "not necessarily representative of America," but should be heard. "It's more than health care," said Specter, 79, who earlier this year left the Republican Party and became a Democrat. "I think there is a mood in America of anger with so many people unemployed, with so much bickering in Washington ... with the fear of losing their health care. It all boils over." Specter and Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, appeared on a nationally broadcast news show Wednesday, a day after town hall meetings they hosted erupted in the same kind of catcalls, jeers and shouting that has characterized many such forums in recent weeks. "There were a couple of tough moments," McCaskill said of her experience, "but it lasted two hours and there were thousands of people there." Jeers and taunts drowned out both Specter and McCaskill on occasion Tuesday. "You'll be gone, by God the bureaucrats will still be here," one man told Specter at a session in Lebanon, Pa. "If they don't let us vent our frustrations out, they will have a revolution," Mary Ann Fieser of Hillsboro, Mo., told McCaskill at her Missouri health care forum. McCaskill admonished the rowdy crowd, saying "I don't understand this rudeness. I honestly don't get it."

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; August 11th;[obamanomics;FluffyCare;Palin]

Typically Faulty obamanomics!! Last Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office released its latest snapshot on the federal budget.

• The budget deficit was almost $1.3 trillion during the first ten months of the fiscal year (through July).
• That’s up from $389 billion at this point last year.
• Spending has risen 21% over last year, while tax revenues have fallen by 17%.
• CBO estimates that $125 billion of the increased spending and decreased revenues are the result of this year’s stimulus act.

Tax revenues have fallen off a cliff.

• Revenues have fallen 17% this year, adding $353 billion to the deficit.
• The decline has been particularly sharp for corporate incomes taxes (down 57%) and individual income taxes (down 20%).

Spending on TARP and the GSEs.

• CBO estimates that spending to date on TARP will have net cost to taxpayers of $169 billion (For more details on how CBO calculates this, see this post.)
• In addition, the government has injected $83 billion into Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE), the two housing GSEs.
• Together, these parts of the financial rescue have added $252 billion to the deficit.
• Spending on other programs has increased 14%, adding $325 billion to the deficit.

These increases are spread across many program areas:

• Defense spending is up 8%
• Medicare spending is up 15%.
• Unemployment benefits are up more than 160%
• Medicaid up 24%

The only piece of good news continues to be interest payments, which are down despite the explosion of federal debt. Payments have fallen on regular Treasury debt because of low interest rates and on inflation-indexed debt because of low inflation. obama Destroys Working America! This month something else became important - the labor force participation rate. What all investors and traders should be looking at is the net impact of any of these reports on national income and the ability of the consumer to spend. And these are still shrinking big time. Net Employment Gains: We are still losing jobs, and even if the Street wants to trade the second derivative, the decline in the rate of decline, a quarter of a million jobs lost is five football stadiums fewer people working and spending less money than last month. Impact on the economy is quite negative. Long Term Unemployed: This jumped to more than five million, up 589,00. A terrible number indicating large pockets of the economy are toast, and unable to spend almost anything except on necessities. Impact on the economy: also quite negative. Income Gains: The increase in the work week was noise - one tenth of one percent - and the income gains were 2.5%, which is less than the real rate of inflation due to increases in gasoline and health care costs. And since this is an average number, and millions fewer people are working, including quarter of a million last month, national income continues to decline. Impact on the economy: no impact, not a good thing when the economy needs a boost. Labor Force Participation Rate: Since the country lost jobs and the unemployment rate stayed the same, fewer people are looking for work, and therefore fewer people are looking to increase their income, holding back any potential gain in national income and consumer spending. This is not a good thing for the economy. The focus should be on national income: This recession is now being driven by a lack of consumer spending due to the recession, a staggering loss of consumer wealth in their homes and portfolios and the incredible pullback in consumer credit we have seen in the past two years, more than $4 trillion dollars by year end. Since 70% of the economy ( this number is shrinking, actually) is consumer spending, the continuing declines in national income means the recession is still getting worse and the nonsense about the second derivative is just that, nonsense. Are we too negative? Maybe, in part due to the new mandates in the financial broadcast media only to smile and have upbeat commentators. Not one commentator on CNBC, Fox Business or Bloomberg had a bad word to say. What does that tell you? It gets tiring and since these networks are posing as journalists, balance is needed for people interested in getting in or out of the market. What does this mean for investors or traders? For investors who value any kind of fundamentals, the market over time will respond to a W shaped recession or a bottom with no climb up, which means it will go down. There will be a statistical bump in GDP in either Q3 or Q4 but it will be just that, statistics based on inventory restocking, a one time event, and import and export flows and the market may go up in response to these numbers. Raise Federal Spending Limits? Last Friday, "Turbo-Tax" Tim Geithner formally requested that Congress raise the $12.1TRILLION statutory debt limit, warning it must be increased so that "citizens and investors here and around the world can remain confident that Fluffy obama and ACORN will continue to piss away America's future." Geithner said the existing limit could be breached as soon as mid-October if no action is taken, as the Treasury is expected to issue up to $2T of debt in FY '09 and up to $1.6T of debt in FY' 10. A couple of questions come to mind:

• Has the Executive and Legislative branches ever heard of "SPENDING CUTS?"
• Does the Executive and Legislative branches have any idea who buys up all this debt they issue?
• The Chinese and the Japanese, that's who!! With each country's wealthiest individuals buying up major portions of most large cities, guess who's gonna own The United States??

Healthcare Facts Fluffy Doesn't Want You To Hear!! [I found this internet article by Gloria Vogel, a registered AFLAC agent] During summer recess, Congressional leaders are hearing an earful from constituents about health insurance reform. In numerous town hall meetings around the nation, opponents of reform have emerged in large groups battling the proposals. Fluffy obama vociferously argues that those opposed to his reform proposals are “spreading outlandish rumors and misleading information”, and the Administration blames Republican and industry backed groups and conservative talk-show hosts for “staging” the outcry. The White House is even asking that in order to track rumors, individuals should send information on any dissent to a new website: flag@whitehouse.gov. Just the Facts- Since there is so much concern about misinformation, let’s look at the facts.

Fact #1. Freedom of speech is a given right in the Constitution

• Free discourse of opinion and political debate is allowed according to our Constitution.
• In fact, freedom of speech has been upheld by the Supreme Court in opinions related to previous challenges to the First Amendment.
• We do not want a society where Big Brother watches us, as happens in communist countries;
• or where we tattle on our neighbors, as occurred in Nazi Germany.

Fact #2. Medicare/Medicaid government programs have consistently exceeded original cost estimates and have grown faster than private insurance costs. As noted in the Wall Street Journal last week,

• Medicare spending in the first nine months of this fiscal year is $314 billion and growing by 10%.
• The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the House bill will increase the deficit by $239 billion over the next decade.
• However, beyond the 10 years, the net costs of new spending will increase at more than 8% per year between 2019 and 2029, while new revenue would only grow at about 5%.
• In other words, the cost burden to taxpayers for this program will be huge and will last for a long time to come. Taxing private insurance firms to pay for the government plan won’t work, as the private firms will simply pass along those costs to their customers. Raising taxes on employers will simply shift the costs of healthcare to the public sector.

Fact #3. End of life treatments account for a large portion of Medicare costs.

• According to the latest Business Week, a UnitedHealth report prepared for lawmakers finds that
• 27% of Medicare’s budget is now spent during the last year of older patients’ lives, often on questionable hospital tests and procedures.
• Expanded hospice coverage and other services could save significant amounts, perhaps $18 billion over 10 years, according to the article.
• Purchase of long-term care insurance by individuals could also ease the financial burden for end of life treatment costs.

Fact #4: Any government health insurance plan that tries to compete with the private sector by focusing on affordability will inevitably offer cheaper rates and drive all insurance into a single payer plan.

• While the Administration says it simply wants to offer another alternative to the private sector,
• the reality is that the private sector will be unable to compete with a government run plan that offers insurance at below market rates to make coverage more affordable.
• Employers will naturally cede insurance coverage to the government plan to cut their own costs.

Fact #5: U.S. insurers have already openly indicated a willingness to consider moving to a ”take-all-comers marketplace”, whereby they will accept all applicants, regardless of age or medical history.

• If private insurers follow through on accepting all applicants, the need for a universal health insurance plan is partly obviated.
• A better solution to a single payer plan is to have consumers assume higher co-pays for everyday medical costs within the private sector, with insurance coverage focused more on those high end expenses that can truly bankrupt families.

Fact #6: Single payer plans adopted by other nations have led to long delays in treatment, rationing of services, and rising costs – good indicators of what can be expected if a government health plan is adopted in the U.S.

• Even the State of Massachusetts -- the model that serves as the basis for the Obama plan -- is having problems:
• a scaling back of initial benefits, rising taxes, and higher costs.
• France, which has long had a single payer plan, has tried to adopt more American-style methods such as increased co-pays to cut increasing expenses.
• The state insurer in France has been operating in the red since 1989. The Japanese government fixes the costs for treatment, resulting in low doctor pay, bankrupt hospitals, and demand for supplemental health insurance coverage to fill the gaps in the government plan.
• In Canada, waiting lists for various treatments are said to cost $14 billion a year nationally in lost economic activity, and there is a chronic shortage of doctors.
• Despite the universal plan, many Canadians cross the border to seek treatment in the U.S. when faced with long waits and expensive treatments.

Rationale for Rancor There are many reasons why Congressional leaders are hearing negative feedback from their constituents. The dissent mainly focuses on concern over government control and intrusion into a major economic sector, as well as the cost burden of any healthcare reform program for taxpayers. There is no free lunch. We need to control the costs before we introduce any new, expensive, and inefficient plan. Healthcare is important for everyone. Congressional leaders should look beyond party politics and pass laws that are in the best interests of the nation -- and our legislators should have the same health plan as everyone else to align their interests. Here are some suggestions:

1.We should work to improve the existing private health insurance sector and encourage supplemental insurance to fill the gaps in such coverage, before we introduce any new government insurance plan. 2. We should encourage higher co-pays for everyday ailments to cut overuse of healthcare facilities, focusing attention instead on catastrophic issues. 3. We should establish a national cap on medical malpractice lawsuits, as has already been done in many states. High malpractice insurance costs lead to higher medical costs and force many good physicians to abandon their practices. 4. We should look into expanded hospice coverage for end of life care. 5. We should provide more information on diet and exercise and do more to incentivize individuals to adopt healthier lifestyles via lower insurance rates. 6. Before we do anything else, we should cut inefficiency in existing government programs.

[Note To Sarah Palin....]

Good day, Ms Palin; I, along with many other Americans, are casting about for some QUALIFIED representation who still retain their ability not only to hear, BUT TO LISTEN!! Now is the time to put together a regimen which will return the welfareRATs to the working class-excepting those who are truely in need. After reading the above entry, one should remember some of Benjamin Franklin's quotes:

• There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
• Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.
• When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.

One needs only to look to whom a large portion of the budgeted federal monies go. Social engineering of the FDR and LBJ administrations may have had good intentions, but have had devastating results!! The obama/ACORN administration is wont to follow in those calamitous footsteps.

Take a look at the statistics:

• There were an estimated 96 million households in 1993, 722,000 more than in 1992.
• The average annual rate of growth in the number of households has decreased over the past 20 years from 2.4 percent in the 1970’s, to 1.4 percent in the 1980’s, to 1.1 percent from 1990 to 1993.
• In 1993, there were 68 million family households: 78 percent (53 million) were married-couple families, 18 percent (12 million) were families maintained by a woman alone, and 4 percent (3 million) were maintained by a man alone. (A family has at least two members with at least one who is a relative of the householder.)
• There were 28 million nonfamily households, most of which contained only one person, The proportion of all parent-child family groups maintained by single parents rose dramatically from 13 percent in 1970 to 30 percent in 1993.
• Nearly 75 percent of these “single” parents either had never married (36 percent) or were divorced (38 percent) in 1993.
• The absent parent was usually the father (86 percent of single-parent situations).
• A majority of Black family groups with children were maintained by single parents in 1993 (63 percent), compared with 25 percent among Whites.
• This is much larger than in 1970, when the percentages were 36 percent and 10 percent, respectively.
• More than 1 in 3 (35 percent) Hispanic family groups with children were maintained by single parents in 1993, compared with 26 percent in 1980 (comparable 1970 data are not available for Hispanics). (Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race.)
• In 1991, almost one-fourth of preschoolers were cared for primarily in an organized facility while their mothers were at work.
• In fall 1991, there were 31 million children under 15 living with their employed mothers (55 percent of all children under 15).
• Of these 31 million children, 10 million were preschoolers under 5.
• Among these preschoolers, 23 percent (2 million) were in an organized child care facility, such as a nursery school;
• 36 percent (4 million) were cared for in their own home; and 31 percent (3 million) were cared for in another home.
• 1 Parent-child family groups have at least one never-married own child under 18 living in them, and include family households, related subfamilies, and unrelated subfamilies.

As is blatantly apparent, the socialist policies of previous democRAT a-n-d republicRAT administrations have bred several generations who feel they are entitled to government funded EVERYTHING, from cradle to grave-without lifting a finger to earn just one benefit. Laziness--NOT RACE, is the primary factor in this mindset!

• Now add to the aforementioned costs for public assistance in all forms, the economic costs of supporting many millions of illegal immigrants.
• Mexico's third largest cash infusion [after exports and oil sales] is the money sent home by the illegal immigrants in America.
• Every year, more and more illegal immigrants use the nation's emergency rooms as their personal "doctor's office."

HOW COVERAGE VARIES--Illegal immigrants are less likely to have health coverage than others:

Types of Adults Uninsured

• U.S. citizens 14%
• Legal immigrants 25%
• Illegal immigrants 59%

Children Type Uninsured

• U.S. citizens 9%
• Citizens whose parents are legal immigrants 13%
• Foreign-born children of legal immigrants 25%
• Citizens with illegal immigrant parents 25%
• Foreign-born children of illegal immigrants 53%

Fluffy is "hell-bent" to convince the American public that he wants to insure that everyone of us has available healthcare.

• Look at the stats; the 14% of Americans uninsured are most probably those young "20-somethings or 30-somethings" who with few exceptions, would be wasting their money in healthcare insurance!
• The stats also indicate the largest abusers of America's healthcare system: Citizens with illegal immigrant parents [25%] and foreign-born children of illegal immigrants [53%]! They need no healthcare insurance!! They already know that they WILL BE TREATED during each and every emergency room appearance; They already know that if they don't pay the fees, the affected hospital will just "write off" the expense by adding it to those who do not abuse the system: You and I!!!

The latter statistical subjects are the very folks Benjamin Franklin warned us about: Those who will vote for the candidate that promises them the most in monetary benefits! All future potential national candidates including Ms Palin, must address the "free-loaders" of American society!! This society is becoming more and more stratified; just as the federal government wants it to be. This stratification makes "class warfare" far easier to promote. When the "do-nothings" are arguing against "the rich;" When the "working class" Americans are arguing against the "do-nothings," they're not paying attention to the issues that the federal politicRATs are trying to slide by them under the cover of darkness!!! We, the American "working-class" are in dire need of a Congress and a President who will listen to those who put them in office-NOT the lobbyists; NOT Wall Street; NOT the welfare vote; NOT the illegal immigrant vote; NOT the ACORN-COI agitators; NOT other special interests!!! and a Supreme Court who does not LEGISLATE FROM THE BENCH, but will support the Consitution as written-NOT as the democRATs and republicRATs liberally interpret it!!!

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; August 10th[Buchanan/Fluffy;Quote]

obama Needs Advisors-NOT ACORN "YesMen!!" [I received this forwarded email which essentially is an open letter to Fluffy obama, written by Patrick J. Buchanan. Mister Buchanan has "hit-the-nail-on-the-head," supported by facts!!] barack obama says we need to have a conversation about race in America . Fair enough.

• But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation.
• White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.
• This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard.

And among them are these: First,

• America has been the best country on earth for black folks.
• It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million,
• were introduced to Christian salvation,
• and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.
• Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
• (P.S.White man did not go to Africa, track and capture them. They were sold out by their own.)

Second,

• no people anywhere have done more to lift up blacks than white Americans.
• Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.
• Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks--with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas--to advance black applicants over white applicants.
• Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.
• We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude???
• Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks.
• Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown , and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids?
• Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America ?
• Is it really white America's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70% and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50%?
• Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence

. Is barack obama aware that

• while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time,
• black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?

Is barack obama aware that

• black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse,
• that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?
• We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about
• Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena, Louisiana. And they all turned out to be hoaxes.
• But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

Sorry, barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago. (P.S. it is the behaviors and attitude, not the color of your skin, that most whites are starting to find unacceptable. Didn't MLK say something about "judging on the content of your character?") We are a Christian Nation even if Mr. Obama says we are not.This needs to be passed around because, this is a message everyone needs to hear!!! Forecast Of Things To Come? Growing up in the late '40s and '50s, I became a voracious reader-devouring 20-25 magazines and a couple of novels a month [My family had no TV until I was seventeen years old!]. This trait has served me well throughout the intervening years. I recently finished "Something To Die For," by James Webb. This is an excellent read for those who enjoy military, political intrigue novels. As you read the next paragraph, bear in mind that this novel was copywrited in 1991!! I'd like to quote a paragraph from the book, found on page 356 of the paperback version:

They were lying, lying! They had called their favorite reporters and told half-truths corroborated with other half-truths and he was choking on their dissembling, vicious attacks. But there was nothing he could do. It reminded him of Lyndon Johnson's story about the 1948 Senate campaign, when in the final days one of Johnson's aides had suggested that they start a rumor that his opponent like to have sex with pigs. Johnson had insisted that no one would actually believe the man screwed pigs. It doesn't matter, said his aide. He'll spend the rest of his life denying it.

Allegations, lies, denials, dissembling, distortions, frantic deterioration into the rampant slinging of mud and shit: the Harvard shootouts. The President and his leaders could not solve the real problems that faced them. They could not balance the issues of national sovereignty and self-discipline that were being lost under an avalanche of foreign investment and the power that went with it. They preferred quietly allowing the Soviets-and the Chinese-to repress, or perhaps even slaughter, their own people in the name of "internal control" as long as relations remained reasonably on track. [Bold emphasis-Mine.]

Couldn't this have been written last week; last month?!?! Remember, Mr Webb wrote his novel in 1991!! It would seem he reached into the future and chronicled parts of the "Slick-Willie" and the Fluffy obama administrations!!!

I have to publish this in it's current form-this goofy software won't "let me out" of blockquote!

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; August 7th[MoreDumber;OOIDA;BeerParty]

Just When You Thought They Couldn't Get Any Dumber!

[As a former truck driver and lifetime member of OOIDA {Owner Operator, Independent Drivers Association}, I routinely receive email alerts from their offices. This alert is especially important; these actions must not go forth!! I've seen Mexican national truck drivers.... they are dangerous and must be stopped from legally driving outside the cross-border trade zones. EVERYONE, truck driver or not, should contact all those on the list below and request that they resist any foreign pressure and NOT APPROVE opening U.S. roads to Mexican domiciled trucks and drivers!! There are many horror stories involving those Mexican drivers that ignored the law and "came north" anyway!! They have very little driving ability; very little regard for human life; very little if any, knowledge of the english language; very, very poor personnel and equipment safety records; the Mexican government has not met one of the basic tenents of NAFTA-verifiable equipment and personnel safety records and data]

~ URGENT ~

Fluffy obama and officials in his Administration need to hear from you TODAY! This Sunday (August 9) Fluffy will be travelling to the city of Guadalajara in Mexico to meet with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on matters related to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

A Mexican official told Reuters news service last night that Calderon plans to pressure Der Fluffmeister to move forward with opening U.S. roads to Mexico-domiciled trucking companies and truck drivers. Recent statements by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and other officials indicate that the Administration is already on the verge of giving in to pressure from Mexico and the multi-national corporations behind the push for Mexican trucks in the U.S. Fluffy and officials in his Administration need to hear from you, your family members and your fellow truckers as none of the safety or security issues have been resolved on either side of the border!Call, write, fax to the offices below TODAY and TOMORROW!

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative:

• USTR's Intergovernmental Affairs & Public Liaison office:
• (202) 395-6120 FAX: (202) 395-3692
• Office of the United States Trade Representative
• 600 17th Street NWWashington, DC 20208
• obama:
• http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
• Comments: (202) 456-1111 FAX: (202) 456-2461
• The White House
• 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
• Washington, DC 20500
• U.S. Department of Transportation:
• Phone: (202) 366-4000
• Secretary Ray LaHood
• Office of the Secretary of Transportation
• 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
• Washington, DC 20590
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
• Suite W60-300
• Washington, DC 20590
• Congress:
• To call your 2 Senators and your Representative in the House,
• call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121,
• provide the operator with your home zip code.
• The operator will connect you with the offices of your elected representatives.
• To write and/or fax to your Senators:
• http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
• To write and/or fax to your U.S. Representative:
• https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

*You are also welcome to call OOIDA at (800) 444-5791. Association staff will be happy to help put you in touch with your elected officials in Washington.

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Please call, write, fax to the offices TODAY and TOMORROW!

Compare: Ruler Of The People vs President Of The People

[I was referred to this article from The American Thinker, while researching on Rush's website. I must note though, that when President George Bush is compared with Fluffy obama... there really IS NO COMPARISON!! Mr Bush is the most compassionate president of the twentieth century; Fluffy is the most arrogant dumb-ass ever elected to the presidency!!]

obama's revealing body language (updated and expanded))

• Thomas Lifson
• This picture truly is worth at least a thousand words. I am stunned that the official White House Blog published this picture and that it is in the public domain.
• The body language is most revealing. Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio,
• helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs,
• while Fluffy obama, heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own.
• So who is compassionate?
• And who is so self-involved and arrogant that he is oblivious?
• In my own dealings with the wealthy and powerful,
• I have always found that the way to quickly capture the moral essence of a person is to watch how they treat those who are less powerful.
• Do they understand that the others are also human beings with feelings?
• Especially when they think nobody is looking.
• Update from Thomas Lifson:
• I think this photo constitutes another major obama blunder. As some AT commentators point out, this picture becomes a metaphor for obamaCare.
• The elderly are left in the back,
• with only the kindness of the Crowleys of the world,
• the stand up guys, to depend on.
• The government has other priorities.
• One of the major subtexts of the health care debate involves the public's fear of indifferent, powerful bureaucrats ruling their lives.
• It is one thing to wait in line at the DMV to find out which other line you should wait in,
• in order to begin the process of waiting for multiple bureaucrats to go through the motions of processing your request.
• I have spent entire afternoons going through this process. But when we get to health care, waiting often means enduring pain and dysfunction longer than necessary,
• sometimes a worsening of the condition, and sometimes death. That's why I think this image will have genuine resonance.
• It captures something that older Americans in particular can relate to.
• The president presses ahead with a program that will tell them to take painkillers instead of getting that artificial hip. At every stage of the entire Gates affair,
• obama has provided a revealing tell.
• The "acted stupidly" blunder revealed that he automatically blames the police and thinks they really are stupid to begin with.
• It didn't trigger a single alarm bell in his mind as he figured out what to say. Then, the non-apology apology revealed an arrogant man who cannot do what honest people do: admit it when they make a mistake.
• Now at stage three, the beer photo op looked OK.
• It didn't turn into a disaster. But then in a small moment that nobody in the White House had the brains to understand, obama goes and send a body language message like this. I think he is going to get deeper and deeper into trouble.
• He is no longer repeating the familiar scripts dreamed up for the campaign.
• He was a master performer. But when he goes improv, as a president must do, he lets his true character show.
• This helps widen the level of doubt that Obama is the same guy a majority voted for.
• Those doubts can only grow.
• Andrew McCarthy has assembled an overwhelming case that obama has lied about who he is.
• I predict that more and more Americans will become open to the argument that they have been had by a sophisticated and ruthless effort to foist a phony on America.
• Update from Clarice Feldman:
• A nice comparison of the character of the two most recent presidents.
• President George Bush with Senator Robert Byrd

• Update:
• We know the picture is really getting to the left.
• They avoid any actual facts or logic, instead retreating into insults.
• Soros-financed Media Matters calls me a "fringe blogger." Andrew Sullivan calls this blog "inane,"providing no analysis or examples,
• just a one word insult.
• Quite a bit of email from those complaining about my interpretation.
• One example, with my response here.
• Eric Etheridge of the New York Times takes note of this blog entry,
• and provides no snark, while reprinting the picture and my early commentary.

Til Nex'Time....